Efficacy and tolerability of levetiracetam versus phenytoin after supratentorial neurosurgery

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 665-669

  Milligan, Tracey A ^a,b   Hurwitz, Shelley ^a   Bromfield, Edward B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; PHENYTOIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PIRACETAM;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COGNITION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOPENIA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREMOR; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG TOXICITY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG TOXICITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHENYTOIN; PIRACETAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52449103734     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000324624.52935.46     Document Type: Article

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